Alive Quote by James Clavell

Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the…

— Jenny Zhang

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it's hard.

— Andrea Riseborough

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

My cultural experiences were as important to my formation as many of the other things that happened to me.

— Edward Hirsch

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have…

— Alan Dean Foster

After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next,…

— Rosie Fellner

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

— Anya Seton

Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11.…

— Lawrence Wright

I guess my overall life plan is to think about issues that concern me and try to use culture generally to make sense of…

— Alain de Botton

I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself…

— Anton Chekhov

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom…

— Chris Prentiss

Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get…

— Curtis Sittenfeld